Percona Server is optimized for cloud computing, NoSQL access, and modern hardware such as SSD and Flash storage.

Percona Server provides:

Faster and more consistently run queries

Improved efficiency with server consolidation

Delayed or completely avoided sharding

Better ROI through lower hosting fees and power usage

Cloud ready.

Dramatically reduces downtime on servers with slow disks and large memory, such as 4XL EC2 servers on EBS volumes

SaaS deployable.

Increases flexibility for architectures such as co-located databases with hundreds of thousands of tables and heterogeneous backup and retention policies

Vertical scalability and server consolidation.

Scales to over 48 CPU cores, with the ability to achieve hundreds of thousands of I/O operations per second on high-end solid-state hardware

Query, object and user level instrumentation.

Detailed query logging with per-query statistics about locking, I/O, and query plan, as well as performance and access counters per-table, per-index, per-user, and per-host

Enterprise ready.

Percona Server includes advanced, full-enabled external authentication, audit logging and threadpool scalability features that are only available in Oracle’s commercial MySQL Enterprise Edition

Percona Software Platform solution.

Percona Server is part of a complete, integrated suite of Percona database solutions that provide better performance, reliability, diagnostics and lower total cost of ownership when used together. These synergies are unique to the Percona Software Platform and include true non-blocking online backups, tight compression of data and extended instrumentation and tooling for quick diagnosis and resolution of issues.